DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

A business lobby group that regularly meets with top elected officials and policymakers in British Columbia is now being led by someone who once argued that human-caused climate change is an “untested proposition.” The papers in this volume make it clear that global warming is not a settled issue,” Jones wrote in the introduction. “The

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Illustration by Hugo Herrera / The Verge An updated road map for combating climate change pours cold water on the idea that unproven technologies can play a major role in averting disaster. Hydrogen as a fuel is nothing new, but most of it is still made using gas. degrees Celsius by reaching net-zero emissions. “I

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Policy Exchange, one of Westminster’s most prominent think tanks, engaged in a high-level influencing campaign over the UK’s North Sea oil and gas policies while being funded by fossil fuel interests, DeSmog can reveal. Fossil fuel firms tout CCUS and hydrogen as green energy solutions, yet the reality is more complicated.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Photos I shot in 2022 for DeSmog capture damage from extreme weather events and the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry — the dominant industry causing global warming. Travis and Nicole Dardar in front of their home in Cameron, Louisiana, near the Venture Global Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

Driving through Douglas County Nevada on 16 July 2021, as smoke from the Tamarack fire in nearby Alpine County becomes visible on the horizon (image credit: loren chipman , CC BY-NC 2.0 The recent IPCC Report confirms that global warming is picking up pace. Michael Norton, EASAC’s Environment Programme Director.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

While Eni is among the world’s largest oil companies, the company’s role in climate change has so far undergone scant scrutiny. The cover of a 1970 study by Eni’s Isvet research centre that warns of “catastrophic” climate impacts from burning fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

The county argues oil companies’ “campaigns to deceive and mislead the public about the damaging nature of their fossil fuel products” delayed climate action for decades, robbing communities of precious time to mitigate the climate-driven disasters they now face.

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Grist

AUGUST 20, 2021

It might sound like a low bar, but for those who care about facts, it’s been a long wait: News coverage of climate is finally getting the science right. That’s a sharp change from the last comparable study in 2004, when researchers discovered that more than half of articles treated dissenting opinions as equally valid.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2022

“Investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure is moral and economic madness,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released part of its latest report on Monday. The extinction of a million species of plants and animals. This is not fiction or exaggeration.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Bank bosses due to attend a green investment summit tomorrow head institutions which have provided over £700 billion of financing for the fossil fuel industry since the 2015 Paris Agreement, including £129 billion in 2020 alone. . JPMorgan financed £230 billion in fossil fuels between 2016 and 2020. billion in 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. She also claims that, while serving in the Treasury, she attempted to cancel the 2021 COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. She adds that “the U.S.

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Rinexii

OCTOBER 22, 2021

2021 has shaped up to be rather a surprising year for the fossil fuel industry. After the sudden quarantine of vast swaths of the world through 2020, the shuttering of businesses, and the general loss of revenue, large fossil fuel giants are getting hammered from citizens, government, and even their own investors.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 11, 2024

Reform campaigns to “scrap all of net zero” and last year received £135,000 from donors who deny climate science or have business links to fossil fuels. He has suggested that coal, the most polluting fossil fuel, is environmentally sustainable because “coal 100 million years ago was trees and plants”.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Fossil fuels are everywhere at this COP except in the decisions being negotiated by governments,” Nikki Reisch, the director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, wrote to DeSmog from Glasgow. AlOtaibi is registered as a senior consultant on climate change for Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Energy.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Nearly two thirds of social media posts put out by six major European fossil fuel and energy companies since the end of 2019 present a “green” image of the company, despite the majority of their business activity remaining in fossil fuels, reveals new analysis by Desmog.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

These comments, originally made by Moore and echoed by Birtles, have “absolutely no basis in fact”, according to Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. GB News was approached for comment.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2021

Letter from 50 campaign groups urges government to heed recent advice of International Energy Agency that growing fossil fuel supply is incompatible with a 1.5C The court ruling was hailed by climate campaigners as a watershed moment that could potentialy pave the way for other climate litigation against major fossil fuel firms.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

Their research, as well as the ongoing Competition Bureau investigation and a national ban on misleading fossil fuel advertising proposed by NDP member of Parliament Charlie Angus, have generated significant media attention this spring about the legitimacy of climate promises made by the Pathways Alliance.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Hintze, a Conservative peer and hedge fund manager, was one of the early funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , founded by the late Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson. Hintze has said that he believes “there is climate change” caused “in part due to human activity over the past century”.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 30, 2024

By trapping carbon dioxide in this manner, not only is hydrogen harnessed as a clean energy source, but greenhouse gas emissions are simultaneously mitigated, providing a dual benefit towards fighting climate change. 3, 2021, pp. 7, 2021, pp. 2, 2021, pp. ” Journal of Sustainable Energy, vol. Johnson, A.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The founder and honorary president of the Global Warming Policy Foundation has announced he will be retiring from parliament. The newspaper – which regularly runs columns attacking climate action – notes Lawson’s pivotal role in the official Brexit campaign, Vote Leave, during the 2016 EU referendum. GWPF Record.

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

Current and future risks from climate change are far worse than previously estimated, but urgent action is still possible to “secure a liveable future for all.” The release is from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, a United Nations body of leading climate experts from around the world.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

HSBC, Barclays, Santander, NatWest, and Lloyds come under fire for continuing to fund fossil fuel expansion. British filmmaker and climate activist Richard Curtis has announced the launch of a new campaign, which calls on the UK's top high five street banks to stop financing oil, gas, and coal expansion.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

New and updated climate commitments fall far short of what is needed to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, leaving the world on track for a global temperature rise of at least 2.7°C C this century, according to the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) latest Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Almost 100 universities that have pledged to shed ties to the fossil fuel industry still bank with financial institutions that have collectively provided $419 billion (£345 billion) to polluting interests between 2016 and 2022. million in funding from fossil fuel companies since 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

In the past, CT Group has lobbied for fossil fuel interests across the globe, working for the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association, and the mining giant BHP. Legatum has sunk tens of millions into GB News since its launch in June 2021, having invested at least £50 million in two funding rounds.

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Grist

AUGUST 12, 2021

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth assessment report , released on Monday, contained some of the group’s strongest language yet affirming the link between human activity and global warming. The plaintiffs said the erosion had been exacerbated by climate change. But the U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The world's biggest firms driving the development of clean energy, electric vehicles, sustainable forestry, and other crucial green solutions continue to outperform the broader global market, "leaving fossil fuel companies in the dust", according to fresh investor research released today.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2022

But the parliamentary register of interests shows that Baker received £5,000 from Neil Record , a Tory Party donor and chairman of both the climate science-denying Global Warming Policy Forum and the Institute of Economic Affairs think tank, which has received funding from oil giant BP, and has a record of opposing government climate policies.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

A University of Victoria economics professor who has spent years questioning whether global warming is “a real thing” is doing research supported by hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from the Canadian government. Meanwhile his peers are producing leading-edge research about climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

The Daily Telegraph’s chief interviewer and columnist Allison Pearson has joined the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , one of the UK’s principal climate science denial groups. The GWPF has criticised both the policies adopted by governments to address climate change, and the science underpinning these policies.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 25, 2022

In their latest attempt to use the Russian invasion of Ukraine to argue for more fossil fuel extraction, climate sceptics have revived an old claim that anti-fracking campaigns around the world have been bankrolled by the Kremlin. RT and Climate Denial. This claim is being amplified by mainstream conservative newspapers.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

In a first at the state level, the City of Hoboken, New Jersey recently added racketeering charges to its climate lawsuit against major petroleum producers and their national trade group the American Petroleum Institute (API). Joseph Davis, via DVIDSHUB , CC BY 2.0 More than two dozen communities across the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

But global warming is increasing sea surface temperatures, which can create a bleaching effect that threatens the survival of tropical coral reef ecosystems, adding to the global biodiversity crisis. Corals will be grown close to the water’s surface to ensure sufficient sunlight.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 18, 2022

Despite global cries for an end to fossil fuel use, China’s coal production reached record levels last year. In 2021, China hit an all-time high for coal output, topping 4.07 Meanwhile, China is feeling the effects of climate change. China’s average temperature in 2021 was 10.7 and 50 billion tons.

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Business Green

MAY 13, 2021

It might seem odd to find supporters of climate action debating the merits of a concept that science shows to be essential for halting climate change, and which is accordingly embedded at the heart of the defining global agreement. Such scrutiny is necessary to protect the science from greenwash.

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Green Living Guy

JANUARY 13, 2022

Preliminary 2021 data from the Energy Information Administration confirm what IEEFA said throughout the year: The long-term-trend in U.S. utility generation continues to move away from fossil fuels, particularly coal, and toward greater renewable energy use.

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